Best Dog-Friendly Hotels in Valencia

Before you go

What happens when you get there

Beaches

Valencia's own ordinance bans dogs from the city's beaches at any time of year, which covers Malvarrosa, Cabanyal, Pinedo, El Saler and La Devesa. The one exception is the marked dog zone at the south end of Pinedo, about 9,900 square metres of shared sand and a roped section of sea, open 15 June to 30 September from nine in the morning to seven in the evening. It is staffed, dogs stay on a lead outside the marked area, and you need the dog's passport or vaccination card with you. In 2025 it opened weeks late, so check it is running before you drive out.

The Turia gardens

The old riverbed is a nine kilometre park from the Bioparc end to the City of Arts and Sciences, flat, shaded in stretches and crossed by bridges rather than roads. Dogs go on a lead, and the city has put fenced dog runs along it where they can come off. The plazas around the City of Arts and Sciences are open ground and fine to walk, but the buildings themselves publish no dog rule, so assume no inside.

Metro, tram and bus

Metrovalencia, which runs the metro and the tram, only takes dogs in a cage or a carrier, free of charge, so a dog that doesn't fit in a bag doesn't ride, including the airport lines and the tram out to the beach. EMT Valencia buses need an EMT Pet Pass, EUR 5 and valid two years, applied for at an EMT office with a form, a copy of your ID, the dog's vet record and a passport photo of the dog. It covers dogs up to 15 kg with a microchip, in a carrier no bigger than 45 by 35 by 25 cm, three pets per bus at most, so it's a small-dog option and one to sort before you arrive. Renfe's Cercanías local trains take a dog of any size free on a lead and muzzle. Taxis are at the driver's discretion.

Trains to and from Madrid and Barcelona

Renfe takes a dog up to 10 kg in a carrier no bigger than 60 by 35 by 35 cm on AVE, Avlo and Media Distancia trains, one per person. Dogs up to 40 kg travel on a bought seat beside you, muzzled and on a lead of no more than 1.5 metres at the station, for EUR 40 on the AVE and Avlo. That excludes listed dangerous breeds, dogs under a year and bitches in heat, and each train carries two large dogs at most, so book early.

Dogs at breakfast and in the restaurant

No hotel on the list allows a dog in its restaurant, and Palacio Santa Clara, Grand Hotel Centenari and NH Valencia Center also keep dogs out of the bar. NH Valencia Center is a clear no for the breakfast room too. Only YOU lets a small dog into El Mirador in a carrier. The rest publish no rule for breakfast, so ask, and expect to use a terrace or take a tray up.

Weight limits and two dogs

Meliá Valencia caps at 8 kg in Supreme rooms only, Only YOU and Sercotel Sorolla Palace at 10 kg, Hospes Palau de la Mar at 12 kg, Palacio Santa Clara and Catalonia Excelsior at 20 kg, NH Valencia Center and Hotel Zenit at 25 kg and The Westin at 30 kg. Two dogs is Grand Hotel Centenari, which publishes no limit and charges EUR 30 plus VAT a night for the room, or NH Valencia Center, two up to 25 kg at EUR 25 each.

Getting there

Valencia airport is at Manises, about eight kilometres west, on metro lines 3 and 5. No airline flying from the UK brings a pet dog into the cabin, Ryanair carries no animals, and Aer Lingus sends dogs as cargo, so from Britain or Ireland the realistic routes are Iberia into Madrid with the dog in the cabin and the train on to Valencia, or driving down through France. Aena lists no pet relief area at Valencia airport.

Vets

AniCura Constitución at Alcudia de Crespins 12, 46019, on 96 365 14 10, and AniCura Benipeixcar at Avenida Constitución 68, 46009, on 963 483 098, both run 24 hour emergency departments in the north of the city. AniCura Valencia Sur at Avenida Picassent 28 in Silla, on 961 203 805, is the 24 hour referral hospital on the south side, handy for El Saler and the Albufera.

Best walks

The Turia gardens end to end, nine kilometres from the Bioparc bridges past the Palau de la Música to the City of Arts and Sciences, with the Jardines del Real beside The Westin as a detour. The Jardines de Viveros for a shorter loop. The Malvarrosa and Cabanyal promenade behind the sand, which the beach ban doesn't touch. The pine paths of La Devesa between the Albufera lake and the sea, on a lead, and the Pinedo dog zone from mid June to the end of September when you want the dog in the water. For a proper day out, the Sierra Calderona is about 40 minutes inland.

When to go

March to early June and late September to November are the months. Summer sits above thirty degrees with sea humidity and the paving holds it into the night, so July and August mean walks before nine and after eight, and the only sand a dog is allowed on is the Pinedo zone, which has its own crowd. Avoid 1 to 19 March unless your dog is deaf to fireworks: the mascletà goes off in Plaza del Ayuntamiento at two every afternoon and Fallas week itself is petardos on every corner. Winter is mild and the Turia is at its best, but the dog beach is shut from October to mid June.